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The itinerant sailor Ishmael begins a voyage on the whaling ship Pequod whose captain, Ahab, wishes to exact revenge upon the whale Moby-Dick, who destroyed his last ship and took his leg. As they search for the savage white whale, Ishmael questions all aspects of life. The story is woven in complex, lyrical language and uses many theatrical forms, such as stage direction and soliloquy. It is considered the exemplar of American Romanticism, and one of the greatest American novels of all time.
knownever: A more enjoyable, shorter, and less allegorical story of sailing life, although there aren't any whales. The author of this one kind of looks down on whalers. All together a more jaunty sea tale.
GaryPatella: Compared to Moby Dick, The Confidence Man is a much lighter read. But after ploughing through Moby Dick, this may be a welcome change. It is not as profound, but you also don't have to struggle through any of it. This is worth reading.
WilfGehlen: Camus was greatly influenced by Melville and in The Myth of Sisyphus mentions Moby-Dick as a truly absurd work. Reading Moby-Dick with Camus' absurd in mind gives a deeper, and very different insight than provided by the usual emphasis on Ahab's quest for revenge.… (meer)
tootstorm: Melville's heir struggles to close his relationship to his preceding literary genius. Click the link above, read what you can, and get yourself hooked on one of the most critically-adored yet criminally-underread novels written in a century defined by self-analysis and experimentation.… (meer)
Oct326: "Qohelet" e "Moby Dick" sono due grandi libri, molto diversi ma con un tema in comune: l'inconsistenza, l'insignificanza e l'inutilità dell'agire umano al cospetto della natura e dell'universo.
Achab, kapitein op de walvisvaart, is een been kwijtgeraakt door toedoen van de witte walvis Moby Dick. Hij wil, koste wat het kost, wraak. En het kost wat: zijn schip en de hele bemanning, op één na, die het verhaal kan vertellen. Het boek laat de lezer kennismaken met de walvis, allerlei aspecten van de walvisvaart, de gevaren ervan en het nut van wat de walvissen opleveren. Blij dat er op die manier niet meer op walvissen wordt gejaagd, dat er überhaupt nauwelijks meer op die dieren wordt gejaagd.
An extremely rare edition nowadays, and expensive, but careful research brought an affordably priced copy to my attention. Excellent text, printing and annotations! Indispensible for a serious study of Moby-Dick. ( )
Latest Dutch translation (after four (or five?) previous ones: J.F. Werumeus Buning (1929), Emy Giphart (1961), ?P.A. Zandstra (1970)?, S. Westerdijk (1979), Helen Knopper (1981)). Due to the popularity of the story many editions have been published, including numerous adaptations, abbreviated versions, illustrated classics, children's books etc, making the publishing history a horror to unravel. The Netherlands are no exception. ( )
This is an almost ideal edition, abundantly annotated and easy to handle. My copy, however, suffers from a stiffened spine and I had to break it in several places, before I could start reading in a comfortable way, which ruined the book (but not the text!!). ( )
Als blijk van mijn bewondering voor zijn genie draag ik dit boek op aan Nathaniel Hawthorne
Eerste woorden
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Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
...so at nightfall, the Nantucketer, out of sight of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales.
...Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
‘Whale-balls for breakfast—don’t forget.’ (Stubb, second mate)
And with what quill did the Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Ganders formally indite his circulars? It is only within the last month or two that that society passed a resolution to patronize nothing but steel pens.
The urbane activity with which a man receives money’s really marvelous, considering that we do earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a moneyed man enter heaven.
But soon I found that there came such a draught of cold aur over me from under the sill of the window, that this plan would never do at all, especially as another current from the rickety door met the one from the window, andboth together formed a series of small whirlwinds in the immediate vicinity of the spot where I had thought to spend the night.
Laatste woorden
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The second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the wandering Rachel, still looking for her missing children. But she found only me, Ishmael, another orphan.
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Please do not combine adaptations or abridged editions of Moby Dick with unabridged versions. Versions aimed at children are normally abridged editions and should not be combined here. Also, books ABOUT Moby Dick (such as study guides) should not be combined with the unabridged nor the abridged novel. Please keep such books as an independent work.
The ISBN 9025463312 is shared with a different work.
The Penguin Classics 150th Anniversary Ed (ISBN 0142000086) is not abridged, although that word has appeared in some user's data.
Norton Critical editions, Longman Critical editions and other scholarly editions should not be combined with the unabridged novel. The scholarly-type editions contain much additional material so they should be considered as separate works.
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The itinerant sailor Ishmael begins a voyage on the whaling ship Pequod whose captain, Ahab, wishes to exact revenge upon the whale Moby-Dick, who destroyed his last ship and took his leg. As they search for the savage white whale, Ishmael questions all aspects of life. The story is woven in complex, lyrical language and uses many theatrical forms, such as stage direction and soliloquy. It is considered the exemplar of American Romanticism, and one of the greatest American novels of all time.
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Het boek laat de lezer kennismaken met de walvis, allerlei aspecten van de walvisvaart, de gevaren ervan en het nut van wat de walvissen opleveren. Blij dat er op die manier niet meer op walvissen wordt gejaagd, dat er überhaupt nauwelijks meer op die dieren wordt gejaagd.